TO ADORN WELLINGTON’S NEW GENERAL POST OFFICE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 1, 5 July 1911, Page 32

TO ADORN WELLINGTON’S NEW GENERAL POST OFFICE.

The imposing front elevation of Wellington* s new General Tost Office is to be ornamented with several fine pieces of statuary, including a group by the famous English sculptor Mr Alfred Drury, A.ILA. Mr Drury’s design represents two female figures sitting with barks to a pillar supporting a globe. Girdling the globe is a bronze band, showing in relief the signs of the Zodiac. One figure holds a bronze model of a locomotive, and the other a beautiful model of a sailing ship, full rigged. The group is to be completed and delivered in Wellington for £l2OO. Flanking this central group will bp two emblematical figures (the designs appearing in the above illustration), which are to be provided by Messrs W. Parkinson and Co., of Auckland. One figure represents telegraphy, and shows a stalwait man in loose robes, holding a quill in one hand and tapping the sending key of a Morse instrument with the other. The opposite figure is emblematical of postal delivery. A splendidly modelled female figureholds high in her right hand an envelope. She stands close to a pedestal bearing a winged wheel (indicative of rapid travelling), and a globe upon which is the name of the great postal reformer. Rowland Hill.